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Fossilized feces remains indicate that herbivorous dinosaurs living in the North may have eaten rotten wood—and the insects living in it—to survive winter.

Where are you going to get protein if you're an herbivore?

Fossilized Dung Reveals Clues About Dinosaurs' Diet

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United States

Northern Mariana Islands

Puerto Rico

American Samoa

Guam

U.S. Virgin Islands

U.S. Minor Outlying Islands

US, US Territories, Canada

US & Territories

A team of intrepid paleontologists discovers that dinosaurs thrived in the unlikeliest of places—the cold and dark of winter in the Arctic Circle. How did they survive year-round and raise their young in frigid and dark winter conditions?

Intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the Arctic’s cold and dark.

Alaskan Dinosaurs

Scientists in Alaska discover the remains of seven different dinosaur species in the earliest stages of their development. Could baby dinosaurs have hatched in the Arctic and migrated thousands of miles with their parents to avoid polar winter?

70 million years ago, several species of dinosaur nested in the Arctic.

Did Some Dinosaurs Breed in the Arctic?

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A team of intrepid paleontologists discovers dinosaurs that thrived in the unlikeliest of places—the cold and dark of winter in the Arctic Circle. How did they survive year-round and raise their young in frigid and dark winter conditions? A dinosaur expedition explores a remote, treacherous, and stormy terrain where the team knows that every bone they find there will likely be a first, adding up to a unique picture of a lost northern world.

University of Edinburgh

University of Colorado at Boulder

Paleontologist, University of Alaska Museum

Intrepid paleontologists discover dinosaurs that thrived in the Arctic’s cold and dark.

Evolution

Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these mystifying phenomena add up to a ticking time bomb, as long-frozen permafrost melts and releases vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. What are the implications of these dramatic developments in the Arctic? Scientists and local communities alike are struggling to grasp the scale of the methane threat and what it means for our climate future. (Premiered February 2, 2022)

In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate.

Arctic Sinkholes

Perfectly round ball of brown ice cream on a spoon against white background

Sixty years ago a teenager’s homemade ice cream raised a surprisingly complicated question: Can hot liquids freeze faster than cold ones?

The ice cream that changed physics

Two tusked mastodons walk through a puddle in a lush green landscape with geese and a hare, as the sun sits on the horizon

An artist’s impression of the Kap København formation 2 million years ago, when the temperature was significantly warmer than northernmost Greenland today. Image Credit: Beth Zaiken

The oldest DNA ever retrieved, preserved in sediments in northern Greenland, reveals that Arctic and temperate species once commingled in an ecosystem unlike anything that exists today.

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Did Some Dinosaurs Breed in the Arctic?

New Fossils Might Capture the Moment of Mass Extinction That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs

A student’s curiosity might change how we classify dinosaurs

Dinosaur Parasites

Day the Dinosaurs Died

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Filming Dinosaurs in Alaska

New fossils capture million-year timeline of life after the dinosaurs died

Alaskan Dinosaurs

Fossilized Dung Reveals Clues About Dinosaurs' Diet